Portrait des freres KOCH, ces milliardaires derriere le tea party

par Silver Dim 17 Oct - 14:31

J'ai souvent entendu de la bouche de certaines personnes que le TEA PARTY (le fameux partie d'extreme droite americaine qui se dit etre contre l'intervention de l'etat dans nos affaires, l'augmentation des taxes, les depenses publiques...bref "le partie de la classe moyenne". ) etait finance par deux freres milliardaires connu pour leur penchant pour le capitalisme a outrance. Quand je me suis mis a faire de rechrches sur les freres KOCH (prononce "Coke"), j'arrivais pas a croire combien ces deux freres sont influants dans la politqiue americaine et combien leur agenda est categoriquement oppose a la lutte de la classe moyenne. Ils ont investis enormement pour lutter contre chaque projet de l'administration Obama (sante, stimilus package...) des projets pour la classe moyenne. Leur compagnie, Koch Industries a ete denonce par des organismes independantes comme le plus grand pollueur des etats unis. Pour les elections legislatives de novembre prochain, ils se sont arranges a mettre sur la table un projet de loi (Proposition 23) qui va suspendre la AB 32, une loi sur la reduction de la pollution.
Pour en savoir plus sur les Koch brothers, lisez cet article de The New Yorker.

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/08/30/100830fa_fact_mayer

Un petit extrait:

Bruce Bartlett, a conservative economist and a historian, who once worked at the National Center for Policy Analysis, a Dallas-based think tank that the Kochs fund, said, “The problem with the whole libertarian movement is that it’s been all chiefs and no Indians. There haven’t been any actual people, like voters, who give a crap about it. So the problem for the Kochs has been trying to create a movement.” With the emergence of the Tea Party, he said, “everyone suddenly sees that for the first time there are Indians out there—people who can provide real ideological power.” The Kochs, he said, are “trying to shape and control and channel the populist uprising into their own policies.”

A Republican campaign consultant who has done research on behalf of Charles and David Koch said of the Tea Party, “The Koch brothers gave the money that founded it. It’s like they put the seeds in the ground. Then the rainstorm comes, and the frogs come out of the mud—and they’re our candidates!”

The Kochs and their political operatives declined requests for interviews. Instead, a prominent New York public-relations executive who is close with the Kochs put forward two friends: George Pataki, the former governor of New York, and Mortimer Zuckerman, the publisher and real-estate magnate. Pataki, a Republican who received campaign donations from David Koch, called him “a patriot who cares deeply about his country.” Zuckerman praised David’s “gentle decency” and the “range of his public interests.”

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